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Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Carlos Delgado is not highstepping through that door

And for his next trick, MLB.com's Noah Coslov will tell all the children that they are getting a wicked BMX bike, and then after they get all excited and build ramps and jumps and mud moguls in the driveway, he'll tell them that he made a mistake, and that he had heard it from Santa Claus. Except that Santa doesn't exist. Sorry kids!

In a way, we're kinda relieved to come to the realization that King Carlos is not coming back to Toronto. (Unless he is. Nevermind. Sorry.) As much as our sentimental side would love to see Delgado pull on an ugly black Jays cap once again, his addition would only serve to further complicate the 1B/LF/DH conundrum of figuring out where we find room in the field and the lineup for Lind/Overbay/Ruiz/Snider/Wallace/Dopirak/Bautista/etc...

Beyond that, we'd just finally worn down Drew from Ghostrunner on First so that he'd climb aboard the Randy Ruiz love train, a train that was goin' off the tracks, over the rail, off the bridge and into the water if Delgado were to make his triumphant return to Canada.

Ruiz or Delgado? Delgado or Ruiz? We would have been torn between two sluggers, feelin' like a fool.

I don't want to seem like Mr. Smartypants-After-The-Fact, but there was something about that whole thing yesterday that smelled funny from the get-go. I didn't get too invested in it, because I just couldn't believe it.

It's not a point worth arguing, but I'd just as soon not see Dopirak's name in any discussions involving the big club (and this year we'll use the term "big club" loosely.) I'm all for giving Ruiz a shot, but I'm not at all concerned about blocking Dopirak.

The T-Bird was the baseball equivalent of Steve Guttenberg. Good looking and poignant. Not appreciated in it's time. Gone too soon, leaving all secretly wanting more. And when it was gone, we all yearned for days of yore. Then we all looked up the word 'yore' in the dictionary.

OK I followed up, the blue text in this screen cap is from a Blizzard employee. Maybe they are coy due to Todd McFarlane's Tony Twist situation, but I think it's fair to say there might be a Link or Jays fan on the WoW development team: http://tinypic.com/r/2nqege1/6

The fact that AA went on with Hogan the next morning to get the denial out in the media again tells me that they are interested but don't want the price to go up. I got the impression that the "rumour" pissed him off because they were monitoring the situation.

Perhaps even it's a nod and a wink right now with Delgado, but they have to move Overbay first.